tape
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /teɪ̯p/, [tʰeɪ̯p]
tape
- Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape.
- Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.
- Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
- After the party there was tape all over the place.
- Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race.
- Jones broke the tape in 47.77 seconds, a new world record.
- Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape.
- Did you get that on tape?
- (informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.
- 2018, Susan Edelman, New York Post, 18 Aug 2018
- “It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.
- 2018, Susan Edelman, New York Post, 18 Aug 2018
- (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.
- Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight.
- (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
- Don’t fight the tape.
- (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick
- His pass was right on the tape.
- (printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.
- French: bande
- German: Band
- Italian: nastro, audiocassetta, videocassetta
- Portuguese: fita
- Russian: ле́нта
- Spanish: cinta
tape (tapes, present participle taping; past and past participle taped)
- To bind with adhesive tape.
- Be sure to tape your parcel securely before posting it.
- To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
- You shouldn’t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
- (informal, passive) To understand, figure out.
- I've finally got this thing taped.
- roll tape
- tape off
- Russian: записывать
- Spanish: grabar
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